Ann K. Schwader

        chalk sprawl
            at the scene
                concrete scream

        lean dark beside her
        the mirror still cracking no
                          second reflection

        serial killer
        misreads mall sign & panics:
        six chopping days left

        even in summer
        the raven's red pencil rasp
        scribbling murder

        outside crashed life pod
        too deep / broad / with talons yet
        overnight footprint

        helmet puncture
                        red vacuum peony
                        blossoming

These haiku are
Copyright © 2001
by Ann K. Schwader.

E-Mail: akschwader@juno.com

About the Poet -- Ann K. Schwader is an accomplished poet
of the dark side. See her Lovecraftian poetry collection, which
includes dark haiku, The Worms Remember.
Ann lives in Westminster, CO with her husband and a dowager Welsh corgi.
She is an active member of both SFWA and HWA. Her poems have recently
appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, frisson, Icarus Ascending, and
elsewhere throughout the small and pro press. She has recently begun
testing the e-zine waters and has poetry scheduled for the July and
October issues of Twilight Times.